COMMENTARY. ON THE GOSPELS Intended for Popular Use. BY D. D. WHEDON, D.D LUKE-JOHN. SIXTEENTH EDITION. NEW YORK: NELSON & PHILLIPS. 1 m Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by CARLTON & PORTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. 09-22-36 gren 8.27.36 PREFACE: THE great favour with which the first volume of this Commentary was received by the public is a decisive encouragement to the author to give assurance of his full purpose, if life and health be spared, to complete an entire exposition of the New Testament in the same style and proportional extent. The present expectation is to embrace it in four volumes; but that must in some degree be left to what shall appear to be the possibilities of compression. Even if the present writer should fail of his purpose, some competent hand will be selected to complete the work. And, we may add, there is a fair prospect that a Commentary on the Old Testament will be furnished, before a very long period shall close, in uniform size and style with these two volumes; so that the present work may be considered as the commencement of a complete commentary on the whole Bible, to be issued from the Book Rooms of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Such a work, embracing the result of modern scholarship, yet popular in its style and compressed in form, will, it is believed, be accepted by the Church and public as fulfilling in its measure the blessed mission of diffusing God's word and "spreading scriptural holiness." |